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The most precious & excellent creature* 1.1 that God hath created here on earth, (saith Hermes) is man; & the most worthy thing in him, is his soule or spirit: vvhich ende∣uouring in this life to follow goodnes, shall after death be rewarded with eternal glory.
For, this is to be beleeued, that the soules* 1.2 of good men, so soone as they are foorth of
the bodie, they passe speedily into a better life; but the soules of the wicked, goe from this world to a worse.
If death were the dissoluing both of bo∣die* 1.3 and soule, then happy were the wicked, which beeing once ridde of theyr bodie, should also for euer after be ridde of theyr soule and wickednes: but forasmuch as it is euident, that the soule is immortall, there is no comfort left for the vngodly to trust in. For, the immortalitie of the soule, exclu∣deth all hope from the wicked, and esta∣blisheth the good in theyr goodnes.
Hermes.
Socrates.
Plato.